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MobEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From the common noun sense, capitalized and used as a proper name.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mobEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mobEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Alteration of mab.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mobEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Clipping of mobile. The video-gaming sense is sometimes reported as an abbreviation of man or beast or of mobile object, but these are backronyms.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- MobEnglish · e-38538-9080
Mob, mob, n. the mobile or fickle common people: the vulgar: the rabble: a disorderly crowd, a riotous assembly: a large herd or flock.—v.t. to attack in a disorderly crowd:—pr.p. mob′bing; pa.p. mobbed.—adj. Mob′bish.—n
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Mob, mob, or Mob′-cap, n. a cap with puffy crown, a broad band, and frills—v.t. to cover, as the face, by a cap or hood. [Old Dut. mop; mod. Dut. mopmuts, a woman's nightcap; cf. Scotch Mutch.]
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